Got to be Trumps fault, a hold over from his administration.
The Justice Department is looking into how a handful of classified documents from President Biden’s time as vice president ended up at the DC think tank that bears his name, the White House confirmed Monday night.
“A small number” of sensitive documents from the 80-year-old Biden’s time as Barack Obama’s No. 2 were located less than a week before last year’s midterm elections at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
The material was discovered by Biden’s personal lawyers on Nov. 2, 2022 while they “were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space,” according to a statement from Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president.
Sauber said that Biden used the office space from “mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign” in April 2019.
The documents were reportedly stored in a folder inside a box of other unclassified papers. It is unknown what the classified documents are about or what their level of classification is, but CBS reported that the papers did not contain nuclear secrets.
Sauber said that the White House counsel’s office informed the National Archives about the documents on the same day they were found and the agency took possession of the materials the next day.
“The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives,” he said. “Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
All presidential and vice-presidential documents must be turned over to the National Archives at the conclusion of a presidency, according to the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
A special counsel could be appointed to probe the matter further after Lausch’s preliminary review.
The documents were reportedly stored in a folder inside a box of other unclassified papers. Seen here, classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago that belonged to former President Trump.
During a “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley in September of last year, Biden ripped Trump as “totally irresponsible” for keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence.
“When you saw the photograph of the top-secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago, what did you think to yourself? Looking at that image,” Pelley asked Biden.
“How that could possibly happen,” the president answered. “How one – anyone could be that irresponsible. And I thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that I mean names of people who helped or – et cetera. And it just – totally irresponsible.”
Federal authorities have recovered some 300 classified documents from the Trump presidency at Mar-a-Lago and other storage sites since January 2021, spurring a federal criminal investigation into violations by Trump and his associates of the Presidential Records Act.
The Penn Biden Center think tank was founded in 2018 and is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. The center purports to be “completely independent of the Biden administration.”
Biden earned nearly $1 million from the University of Pennsylvania to be an honorary professor from 2017 to 2019, despite appearing rarely at the Ivy League school.
Small number, a few, LOL. Meanwhile in Mexico Biden enters via the back door as instructed by Mexico’s prez.
